Bottle base shoe



y 2, 1933- J. A. GLUCKERT 1,907,293

BOTTLE BASE SHOE Filed Jan. 26, 1952 INVENTOR Mw fiZ W,

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Patented May 2, 1933 UNITED fiTA'TES earner OFFICE BGTTLE BASE Application filed January 26, 1932. Serial No. 589,008.

This invention relates to cover shoes for the bases of bottles, particularly milk bottles. In the handling of milk bottles, from the time they are taken from the filling place until they are delivered, the bases of the bottles become dirt laden, so that when they are picked up by the user, carried into the house, and set down on a table or elsewhere, the dirt is transferred to whatever the bottle rests upon. Therefore, the principal object of my invention is to provide a form of shoe, preferably of sheet metal, having upright arms or fingers adapted to grip the bottle, and easily applied to the bottom of the bottle when it is picked up, so that the clean surface of the shoe will come in contact with the rest ing place within the house, rather than the dirty base of the bottle. I

Another object is to so form theshoe for the base of the milk bottle that it will afford means to catch any condensed moisture which may form and drain down the outer surface of the bottle. Without such moisture catch-- ing means, the resting places of bottles are found wet, particularly in the summer time, when the air is saturated with moisture, which collects upon the cold surfaces of milk bottles.

Another object of my invention is to pro vide a shoe for covering the base of a milk bottle, which shall be adapted to receive and hold onto either a quart or a pint size of milk bottle.

My invention resides in certain construction, one embodiment of which is illustrated in the drawing and is hereinafter described. Its use is explained, and what I claim is set forth. r

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a top plan of my invention representing a shoe having spring fingers adapted to receive either a quart or a pint bottle.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the form of shoe shown in Figure 1.

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, the same, with all its portions, is shown to be made preferably of one piece of sheet metal, which should be sufficiently elastic to have the fingers function to grip a large or small bottle held thereby. The shoe 19 is formed like a saucer having a flange 20 and a gutter 20a. Extending up from the flange 20 are two 0pposite pairs of fingers 22. Each finger 22 has an upright portion 23 and an inclined and curved portion 24, terminating in a pad formation 25. The portion 24: is curved concave inward, while the upper edge 26 is inclined downward for a reason hereinafter explained in connection with the'description of its use.

Considering the use of my invention as shown in Figures 1 and 2, the finger portions 2a are curved inward and inclined downward so that as a quart bottle is entered between the tops of the fingers 21 and pressed down ward, the curved edge of the bottle base will engage the edge 26 and cause the finger portions 24; to bend outward, until the pads 25 engage the lower cylindrical portion of the bottle and grip the same. 'When the pint bottle is substituted for the quart bottle, the curved edge of the bottle base engages the edge 26 lower down and causes the finger portions 2 to bend outward, but not so much as with the quart bottle, until the pads 25 engage the lower cylindrical portion of the pint bottle, gripping the same sufficiently tight to cause the shoe to hold onto the bottle, when it is carried away. It is immaterial as to which direction the finger portions 24 extend peripherally. They may extend in opposite directions as shown in the figures or they may all extend in the same peripheral direction.

With a shoe thus engaging the dirty base of the bottle as set forth above, then whatever dirt adheres to the bottle base will be I covered by the shoe and shielded thereby from coming into direct contact with thet9 resting place wherever the bottle is set down, avoiding making any ring mark; while the gutter or saucer portion of the shoe catches any condensed moisture which may form and 5 run down the outside of the bottle. When the bottle becomes empty after using the milk, the shoe is removed and washed at the same time that the bottle is washed, to be put out for the collection, and the shoe, now

clean, is ready for use on another bottle of milk, as it is brought in.

Inasmuch as changes can be made in the form of my invention herein shown and described and inasmuch as other forms of shoe 1 can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, I wish to include all such changes and forms as come within the purview of the following claims.

I claim,

2 1. A shoe adapted to engage the base of a bottle, comprising a bottom member, upstanding elastic fingers at the periphery of said bottom member, adapted to'grip the base portion of said bottle, one of said fingers being formed to have an upright shank portion, a downwardly inclined portion integral with said shank portion, and extending away from said shank portion, circumferentially of said bottle, to have its free end contact the bottle in pressing engagement therewith.

2. A shoe adapted to engage the base of a bottle, comprising a saucer-like member and a plurality of gripping fingers standing up 7 from said member, adapted to engage and hold onto a bottle resting upon said member, one of said fingers having an upright portion connected with said member, and an adjoining portion at an angle thereto, positioned to be above said member, and inclined downward from said upright portion, having part of said downwardly inclined portion adapted to engage in pressing contact a bottle standing upon said member, surrounded by said fingers.

I JOSEPHINE A. GLUOKERT. 

